Improved prepared coffee



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BENJAMIN 1B. LEWIS,,-OF BRISTOL, CONNECTICUT.

Letters PatentNo. 87,346, dated March 2, 1869.

mnovnn PREPARED COFFEE.

m The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe same.

To all whom it may concern ating the ground coffee in a solution ofalbumen, all

Be it known h t .1, BENJAMIN LEWIS, f 3115130], of which subject theconsumer to needless expense and in county f Hartford,- and State fGannecticut, trouble, as the means for renderingthe decoctlon clear haveinvented anew and improved Preparation of Cofy not w y be and 31150 toan FY; fee; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, as morep e p t w necessary to clarify clear, and exact description thereof,which will enable the W 1S l b g 113 a F Q tasteothers skilled in theart to make and use the same. y y mile/11151011, I l an (M1016 selfset"My invention consists in preparing coffee and its subg @0516? at 9 a ytjrlflmg advance cost- The stitutes for the market, with a dry andpulverized pre- Fumble f g d fi time i cipitant added thereto, for thepurpose of producing a of coffee 15 P p and the mconvemence of preparedoofi'ee which will be self-settling. keeping $11011 clarifyingagem$61131r are entirely The precipitant consists of any of the well-knownmovedalbuminous or viscous matters, such as eggs and fish- J P p g largequantltles, by welghtol' measure,

skins, which are thoroughly dried and pulverized, and, as described" theP p Proportions can aJIWEIJYS be -when so pulverized, are thoroughlymixed with the Suredground coffee, both being in a dry state. Exact pro-1 not claim W u of precipitant in the P p portions for all theprecipitants cannot be stated, as ammo" of dfacoctlon of @0566; b I theprecipitating-qualities vary in diflerent articles. What I claim as and(193m? to Secure y ,I prepare codfish-skins, as a precipitant, by firsttars Patent, i cleansing the skins by washing in warm water, after new131916 of manufacture commircei P- which they are desiccated, dried, andpulverized. Nine f; f a P P of Q0586 lffiisubstltltes, ounces of thispreparation, intimately mixed with one cPmbmatlon W Plllvenzedpreclpltauta Substanhundrcd pounds of roasted and ground coffee, aresufy as described, and for the P P herein Set forth fieient'to make thecoflee self-settling. BENJAMIN B. LEWIS.

In preparing a decoction 0f cofiee, it is sometimes Witnesses: renderedclear by percolation, sometimes by adding a HENRY A. MITCHELL,

precipitant to the decoction, and sometimes by macer CHARLES S. LEWIS.

